As a swordsman out to avenge the death of his father, Mandy Patinkin gets a scene of such crazy glory it's no wonder it has become one of those moments that almost everyone who has seen it cherishes.
Watsuki based most of Kenshin's abilities on a real swordsman of the Tokugawa period named Matsubayashi Henyasai, who was skilled in acrobatic techniques.
His last, "Ashes of Time Redux," released in 2008, was new only in that it was a reworking of his 1994 "Ashes of Time," an elliptical meditation on memory in the cloak of a swordsman movie.
Interestingly, perhaps, real warrior women, as opposed to the corporate variety, seem to veer away from the look of a swordsman.
Instead of adapting the novel, however, he borrowed three of its characters, for whom he created a prequel centred on the desert tavern of a swordsman and the lost souls who seek his services.
"The Black Hair" tells the story of a swordsman who leaves his loyal wife to marry up for wealth, only to return to her years later filled with regret.
Famed both as a spy and a swordsman, he spent so much of his life in women's clothes that his gender became a matter of fashionable debate.
Learning that his younger daughter aspires to be a swordsman and has a sword of her own, he hires a Braavosi "water dancer" (fencer), Syrio Forel (Miltos Yerolemou) to teach her the art of swordsmanship.
Duran, an orphaned mercenary swordsman of the Grasslands Kingdom of Valsena, proudly serves his king, the wise Richard.
